"Ghosts and Shadows"
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Last published Mon, Jun 20, 2016
An MIT dropout is recruited by the CIA to help track down a terrorist group that has stolen top secret components to make a super program that could hack into any system and rewrite it to whatever the user wishes--controlling the world with a computer virus, at a madman's fingertips.
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